Last weekend, our family jetted to Atlanta for a wedding. There, we made heavy use of Uber, the ride-sharing service that’s upended in the taxi business in the cities where it has launched, including Houston. We’ve used it in Houston occasionally, but in Atlanta it was eye-opening. The taxi industry needs to get out of the way, or adopt Uber’s approach.
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Comcast has turned on the Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots in Houston that I wrote about in today’s Houston Chronicle. Approximately 50,000 of the residential Arris Touchstone Telephony Wireless Gateway Modems in the area are now broadcasting an “xfinitywifi” hotspot that’s free for any Comcast customer to use. Comcast spokesman Michael Bybee said the process was completed […]
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You may have gotten excited on Monday when you saw AT&T’s announcement that it was considering bringing gigabit Internet service to 100 cities, with Houston being on the list. So far, the only city that actually has AT&T’s GigaPower service is Austin, and there the service is “only” operating at 300 Mbps speeds, with […]
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Aereo, the New York-based startup that lets its customers stream local TV stations over the Internet to PCs, smartphones, tablets and streaming media boxes, pitched one of its tents in Houston back in September. At the time, Houston was Aereo’s fifth market, and now it’s operating in 13. Actually, make that 11. Aereo is the […]
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• Controversial Aereo brings Houston over-the-air TV to the Net in September – Aereo launches in Houston on Sept. 16, allowing you to watch local broadcast stations over the Net, complete with DVR capabilities. Expect lawsuits. • The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You’ll Watch Next – A fascinating discussion of what’s
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Ten years ago on Monday, Matt Mullenweg and Mark Little released the very first version of WordPress, the platform that today dominates blogging. Mullenweg was 19 years old at the time, and attending the University of Houston, having graduated from HISD’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. WordPress, you see, was born in
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If you’re an Internet user, chances are you know about the GIF, an image format that predates the World Wide Web. It was invented in 1987 at CompuServe, then a largely text-based online service. GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format, and to say it has withstood the test of Internet time is an understatement. A
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It’s no surprise that what’s popular on the Web in one part of the United States isn’t going to hot everywhere else. Different regions and cities have different interests, which means residents across this big country often are clicking on different things. That’s what makes the new YouTube Trends Map so fascinating. Google has mapped
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